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- Privative - a. - Causing privation; depriving.
- Privative - a. - Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
- Privative - a. - Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
- Privative - n. - That of which the essence is the absence of something.
- Privative - n. - A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
- Privative - n. - A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
- Privatively - adv. - In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
- Privativeness - n. - The state of being privative.
- Ex- - - A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.
- Privatively - adv. - In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
- Privative - n. - A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
- Privative - a. - Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
- Obversion - n. - The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."
- Dis- - - A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.
- Privative - n. - A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
- -less - - A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.